Post Office and Royal Mail

[angrybear]

You mean unaccompanied as in like a PCP air rifle that didn't travel with me but arrived on a later flight because I made the connection but my luggage didn't?

Again that's a different situation, it would have been booked in as accompanied baggage and from there it was an airline mistake that it did not accompany you.

It's also quite likely that it was already loaded in to a flight container & the container itself missed the flight, as the contents had already been approved it would simply remain sealed & go on the next available flight.

[RobF]

Again that's a different situation, it would have been booked in as accompanied baggage and from there it was an airline mistake that it did not accompany you.

It's also quite likely that it was already loaded in to a flight container & the container itself missed the flight, as the contents had already been approved it would simply remain sealed & go on the next available flight.

Nope. Some items made it, some didn't. It was a transfer so the items were unloaded. The problem was further compounded by the items not being stored in Brussels firearms area, they were left in general baggage. The rifle and another firearm marked baggage became separated. One was delivered, another left near the door on an unsecured warehouse.

IATA classes compressed gases as Class 2 Dangerous Goods. Not prohibited goods. They can fly when the correct processes are followed. That is probably not what RM want to do so they don't. Fair enough. But it isn't against flying regs for compressed air to fly unaccompanied or otherwise.

[angrybear]

Nope. Some items made it, some didn't. It was a transfer so the items were unloaded. The problem was further compounded by the items not being stored in Brussels firearms area, they were left in general baggage. The rifle and another firearm marked baggage became separated. One was delivered, another left near the door on an unsecured warehouse.

IATA classes compressed gases as Class 2 Dangerous Goods. Not prohibited goods. They can fly when the correct processes are followed. That is probably not what RM want to do so they don't. Fair enough. But it isn't against flying regs for compressed air to fly unaccompanied or otherwise.

You seem to be trying to demonstrate that a rule doesn't exist because in a totally different set of circumstances, a rule that didn't apply under those circumstances, was not complied with

Compressed gases/pressure vessels are prohibited, in the post, by RM/PF,

Guns in the general post (air mail) are prohibited flight by the CAA.

[Logunner]

Nope. Some items made it, some didn't. It was a transfer so the items were unloaded. The problem was further compounded by the items not being stored in Brussels firearms area, they were left in general baggage. The rifle and another firearm marked baggage became separated. One was delivered, another left near the door on an unsecured warehouse.

IATA classes compressed gases as Class 2 Dangerous Goods. Not prohibited goods. They can fly when the correct processes are followed. That is probably not what RM want to do so they don't. Fair enough. But it isn't against flying regs for compressed air to fly unaccompanied or otherwise.

I suspect the items were 'checked in' by you and therefore will be 'accompanied' so the rules are complied with... granted what happens after that is a lottery but compliance was undertaken in the first instance.

Irrespective of IATA, the CAA set the rules by which RM abide.